Nora Guthrie

Country: USA
Company: Music
Daughter of Marjorie Guthrie. In 1996, Guthrie co-produced the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum Tribute series honoring Woody Guthrie. In 1998, Guthrie was Executive Producer of the Billy Bragg/Wilco collaboration Mermaid Avenue. These albums created new music to previously unknown Woody Guthrie lyrics and received critical acclaim and Grammy nominations in 1999 and 2001 respectively. In 1998, Nora worked with folk artist Kathy Jakobsen to create the children's book This Land is Your Land, published by Little Brown, and Co., which illustrates and highlights Guthrie's classic lvric. It has won numerous awards and li- terary praise. 'The same year, Guthrie curated her firstmajor exhibit "This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie" in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). The exhibit opened in May 2000, at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles and toured for three years at major museums throughout the country, including the National Museum, Washington, DC and the Museum of the City ofNew York. Marking Woody Guthrie's 90th anniversary year, in 2003, Nora co-produced a month-long celebration of Woody's life and legacy in Nashville, TN. Programs inclu- ded public school events, lectures, gallery exhibits, film screenings, concerts, and an exhibit at Nashville's Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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